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Start-of-production
(SOP) is planned in Mexico for 2017 at a Renault-Nissan/Daimler AG plant that
will make 300,000 premium compact vehicles a year.

Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn and Daimler chief executive
officer Dieter Zetsche have announced their 50:50 joint venture that will see
construction and operation of the new plant in Aguascalientes in north-central
Mexico.

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Production volumes of Ford’s new 2.7-litre, twin-turbocharged
V6 gasoline engine look set to blossom following the company’s unveiling this
week of the all-new, second-generationEdge crossover vehicle at its Dearborn, Michigan headquarters.

Earlier
this year, Ford unveiled its new V6 EcoBoost gasoline engine, the most striking feature
of which is the use of compacted graphite iron (CGI) material for the vee cylinder
block.

For the first time in its history, since it was opened in 1964, Renault’s
Sandouville plant is about to start building light commercial vehicles (LCVs).

The plant will produce New Trafic (to
be launched this summer) and the high-roof version of the Opel/Vauxhall Vivaro,
previously built in Spain (Nissan plant in Barcelona) and the UK (General
Motors plant in Luton).

Monday, 9 June 2014

Eight US states have just released a Multi-State Action Plan to
guide efforts to put 3.3 million zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) on their roads by
2025.

Last
October, governors from eight states – California,
Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and
Vermont – announced their “ground-breaking” initiative to put over three million
zero-emission vehicles on the roads in their states within a dozen years.

Friday, 6 June 2014

Grainger & Worrall (G&W), perhaps the world’s
leading specialist in casting compacted graphite iron (CGI) prototype engine
components, is to open its doors to motorsport professionals from across the UK
on 18 June.

The Bridgnorth, Shropshire company is to host the Motorsport Industry
Association’s (MIA) Summer Open Day.